Trend mongering (Was Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?)
- From: kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kapil Hari Paranjape)
- Date: Thu Jul 3 14:14:37 2008
Hello,
This mail has nothing to do with the relative merits of Linux
distributions.
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, benjamin wrote:
"On the Web, If You're Not Growing, You're Dying"
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/on-web-if-youre-not-growing-youre-dying.html
This is the (IMHO) flawed philosphy of "Trend mongering" that leads
people/companies/programs to want to grab more and more.
What happened to the Unix philosphy of doing one thing and doing it
really well?
If the program is a web browser, it should be a web-browser and not
try to be a film-viewer, mail-reader, editor, programming interface
etc. etc.
The surrounding O/S (kernel+libraries) should provide reasonable ways
for these different programs to pass the relevant objects to the
program that (according to a choice made by the user) handles them
best.
When Seamonkey/Iceape became Firefox/Iceweasel it became _smaller_
and avoided dying.
The most complaints about FF3 have been regarding the features that
have been _added_ to it. The most kudos for FF3 have been about how
it uses _less_ memory and time than FF2.
Motto: Removing bugs is more valuable than adding features.
Regards,
Kapil.
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